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On The Office, Ricky Gervais minted a particular strain of awkward, observational humor with his clueless character as the deliverer of all the wonderfully bad jokes and the butt of all the best ones.

But reinventing its comedy brand has proven to be a stickier wicket.

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With the networks still dominating mainstream laughs and nichier, riskier fare succeeding elsewhere on the basic-cable gridHBO has found itself boxed in and outflanked, unable to settle on a comedy strategy that fits its prestige brand.

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Worst of all is the presence of executive producer Gervais himself, no longer the source of any comedy, but floating high above it, a smug arbiter of disdain and craven celebrity trolling.

If Ricky Gervais merely wanted to make funny videos with his friends, he could use Vimeo like the rest of us.

More recently, Enlightened proved to be a critical hitbut not yet a commercial one.